Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 270

I’m glad to climb back into the safety of the SUV with James after leaving the meeting with Ryker.

There wasn’t much left to say after Ryker made his ultimatum. He’s not going to help me get the Al tech back, not if it means moving against his mate.

I know I should heed his warning.

No one in their right mind pits themselves against the Old

Country Wolves and expects to survive.

But the tech–and whatever damage it might do is my

responsibility.

My family built it, and my family lost it.

No matter the cost, I have to get it back. Then decide whether to hand it over to the military like it was supposed to be, or destroy it and tell the military that the project failed.

“This isn’t good, Leah,” James says once we start driving.

“Tell me about it,” I mutter despondently. “But it doesn’t change things.”

“It doesn’t?” James says incredulously. “Leah, you heard Ryker. If you go after Karolina, he will come for you. Even Aaron was smart enough not to cross the Old Country Wolves.”

“In the past, maybe,” I reply, ignoring the tightness in my chest and the tears that prick my eyes. “But if he was here now, I know he’d be thinking about doing exactly that.”

God, I wish Aaron was here right now.

My entire body aches with wanting my mate.

My heart and soul are in agony, wounded in a way I know I’m never going to recover from. Not until I meet Aaron again in the next life.

“Things are different now,” I keep going, shoving all those

feelings down to be dealt with later when I can be alone. “The

this Al tech and be done

if the tech got used

millions–of people died? Or

if whoever has it started turning

Would you

in the mirror and not feel the weight

deaths?”

looks grim. “No, you’re right. I couldn’t live with that.

going to

into Karolina for a start,” I reply. “We’ll just have to do it in a way that hopefully Ryker

that, and I spend a few minutes mulling over my

as a few ideas start coming to me. “Is there a way

idea, but then again,

It’s not that hard.”

Good.

feel like

the missing

to either check on it–or, god forbid–get

go

1. it.

a few days or weeks should give us a good idea of all the places she goes to, and then

places ourselves and see if

us anywhere.

we get back to

me goodnight, and we go our

but he’s sleeping soundly in

Aaron’s room, then into the luxuriously appointed

want to wash the day away before I go to

Aaron’s large mattress and collapse in the middle, dragging the blankets over myself

pillows.

can still catch the faintest hint of Aaron’s

day soon it’ll be gone, just

distant future, I won’t even remember what